Shamblers Cove

The Shamblers Cove site, located near Greenspond on the north side of Bonavista Bay, gains prominence in Newfoundland and Labrador archaeology due to the unique characteristics of its Dorset component. It should also be recognized for its multiple instances of First Nation occupations. The Historic Resources Division first became aware of this site in June […]

Newfoundland Intermediate

For the last three or four decades archaeologists have had a decent understanding of the major cultural sequence of Indigenous groups in the Province. Very simply from an archaeological point of view, Labrador Archaic First Nations ancestors were in the Straits around 9000 years ago, a little more than 1000 years later, they start to […]

A B C’s of Archaeology (But not X?): Labrador

Two weeks ago I told you about how I was looking through Twitter and I happened upon a post from a history group who had started listing a series of European archaeological sites in alphabetical order by site name with a little detail about each site. That got me wondering if I could do the […]